{"id":27737,"date":"2017-08-26T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T10:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27737"},"modified":"2017-08-26T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T10:36:07","slug":"the-panasonic-radar-matic-rf-880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-panasonic-radar-matic-rf-880\/","title":{"rendered":"The Panasonic Radar Matic RF-880"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Panasonic-RF-880-e1503743325737.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27739\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Panasonic-RF-880-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"403\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Mario Filippi (N2HUN), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Came across this very unusual Panasonic Radar Matic RF-880L radio on eBay:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Panasonic-Radio-Matic-RF-880.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27740\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Panasonic-Radio-Matic-RF-880-1024x828.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574879351&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5337666156&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=272816753442&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting model from the mid-60&#8217;s that automatically tunes for radio stations; apparently there&#8217;s a motor mechanism to accomplish this.<\/p>\n<p>Some other links for this remarkable radio are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/r\/panasonic_radar_matic_rf_880l.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.radiomuseum.org\/r\/panasonic_radar_matic_rf_880l.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvpXfJoJYNc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jvpXfJoJYNc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was not aware of this unique Panasonic model, Mario. \u00a0Thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n<p>Mario points out that the tuning mechanism on this Radar Matic RF-880 does not function. Any eBay bidder would have to be willing to repair this otherwise very clean unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Mario Filippi (N2HUN), who writes: Came across this very unusual Panasonic Radar Matic RF-880L radio on eBay: Click here to view on eBay. Very interesting model from the mid-60&#8217;s that automatically tunes for radio stations; apparently there&#8217;s a motor mechanism to accomplish this. Some other links for this remarkable radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4796],"tags":[4311,6455,6456],"class_list":["post-27737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-vintage-radio","tag-mario-filippi-n2hun","tag-panasonic-radar-matic-rf-880","tag-panasonic-rf-880"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7dn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43066,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/panasonic-rf-2200-antenna-coupler-model-rd-9820-on-ebay\/","url_meta":{"origin":27737,"position":0},"title":"Panasonic RF-2200 antenna coupler (model RD-9820) on eBay","author":"Thomas","date":"April 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mario Filippi (N2HUN), who recently discovered a model RD-9820 antenna coupler for the Panasonic RF-2200. 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Note that I've had some very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Panasonic-RF200-Shop-Goodwill.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Panasonic-RF200-Shop-Goodwill.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Panasonic-RF200-Shop-Goodwill.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":25644,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/panasonic-rd-9820-on-ebay\/","url_meta":{"origin":27737,"position":2},"title":"Panasonic RD-9820 on eBay","author":"Thomas","date":"May 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mario Filippi, who shares an eBay link to this Panasonic RD-9820--the matching antenna coupler for the Panasonic RF-2200. 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